Simon Hoggart Quotes

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• I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else.
• In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
• I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks,…
• They're called Virgin Trains because they don't go all the way.
• Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most…
• Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave…
• Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
• In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told…
• America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built…
• Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals.
• There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts…
• All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more…
• I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant,…
• While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J.…
• The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis…
• I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children…
• I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and…
• When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was…
• If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
• Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chicken dinners.

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